Our Star...
Star Characteristics
Types of Stars
Mixed Bag of Stars
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The name of the star in our solar system.
What is the Sun?
100
The color of the coolest stars.
What is red?
100
These stars are found in movies and on T.V.
What are movie stars?
100
This determines a stars color.
What is its surface temperature?
200
The distance from the earth to the sun.
What is 93 million miles?
200
These are the warmest stars.
What are blue stars?
200
These stars like to fight battles in a galaxy far, far away...
Star Wars
200
What is the Y axis labelled on the Hertzsprung Russell Diagram?
Absolute Brightness
300
The sun is this type of star.
What is a main sequence star?
300
How bright a star really is.
What is absolute brightness?
300
The largest stars in space.
What are supergiants?
300
Shows the relationship between the surface temperature and absolute brightness of stars.
The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
400
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400
The fate of a star is determined by its _____
What is MASS
400
Small, old stars that shine with the last of their thermal energy.
What are dwarf stars?
400
This is known as a "Star Nursery" or "Star Factory"
What is a nebula?
500
Our sun has an absolute brightness of this.
What is 1?
500
The difference between apparent magnitude and absolute brightness
Apparent Magnitude is brightness viewed from earth and Absolute Brightness is the real brightness (or luminosity) of the star.
500
These are the 4 main categories of stars.
What are supergiants, giants, main sequence and dwarfs.
500
This forms from dust and gas contracting.
What is a star?